The National Trust has just unveiled its latest holiday cottage – the Priest’s House at Sissinghurst. Stay there and you get the freedom of this iconic garden in the evenings and on Wednesdays when it is closed to the public. The cottage has been beautifully converted – and as estate agents are fond of saying – it is deceptively spacious. The main bedroom overlooks the White garden and there are two more twin bedrooms, two bathrooms, 2 sitting rooms and a kitchen dining room. For more information go to www.nationaltrustcottages.co.uk
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- The Priest’s House at Sissinghurst is now a National Trust Holiday Cottage
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- The main bedroom of the Priest’s House overlooks the White Garden
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- White Thunbergia planted in the glazed pot at the centre of the White Garden
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- View from the White Garden to the Elizabethan Tower where Vita Sackville West wrote
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- White Garden Gateway framed with clematis and white everlasting sweetpea
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- The striking Herb Paris growing beneath the hazels in the Nuttery
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- The compact Oenothera ‘Yellow River’ in the Cottage Garden
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- A view has temporarily opened up from the second Courtyard Garden into the Orchard because part of the yew hedge succumbed to disease and has had to be replaced
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- The purple border in the Courtyard Garden
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- Spectacular Clematis ‘Perle d’Azur’ in the Rose Garden
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- Pennisetum vilosum and pink verbena
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- Eryngium eburneum looking wonderfully architectural against the yew hedge
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- The Tower at Sissinghurst viewed across a sea of hemerocallis
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- The hot colours of the Cottage Garden
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- Helichrysum Gold and the delicate Begonia sutherlandii
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- Local artists paint in the garden at Sissinghurst when it is closed to the public on Wednesdays
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- Hydrangea ‘Anabelle’, physostegia and veronicastrum in the White Garden
